Steamboats

The steamboats
Bertrand and War Eagle operated in a similar brief period of time in
the United States and were both primarily excavated in the 1960s. The
sites described in this paper are representative of a terrestrial waterlogged
site (Bertrand) and an underwater river site (War Eagle.) The paper
highlights the problems associated with underwater archaeology compared
to terrestrial. This paper is a synthesis of materials and a comparison
of the Bertrand steamboat and War Eagle steamboat and the resulting
archaeology. This comparison will discuss the excavation methods utilized
by each group to their respected steamboats during the 1960s and how
those methods impacted the archaeology record of these sites.

The
UW-La Crosse Historic Steamboat Photograph collection consists
of over 40,000 black and white photographic images of steamboats
on the inland waterways of the United States, primarily the Mississippi,
Ohio and Missouri rivers and their tributaries.